Your Learn To Fly A Helicopter experience begins with a coffee and greeting with your instructor. Following this introduction you will be shown a 30-minute video on some of the principles of helicopter flight and how the controls are used to manoeuvre the aircraft, specifically a Robinson R22 helicopter. After the video, we will show you how a pre-flight inspection of the helicopter is performed so as to ensure there will be no problems during the flight.
It's then off to the whiteboard for a detailed briefing with your instructor on the precise specifics of the air exercise you will undertake. Thorough preparation is required because then...
Parked on one of our helipads will be the helicopter you will learn to fly! Get in. Go through the start up procedure. The engine fires, the rotor blades start turning. A couple of minutes later you're floating above the pad. Your instructor maintains a watchful eye and safe control of the aircraft at all times. During your 30 minute flight you learn to manipulate the controls individually. Toward the end of the flight you are flying the helicopter for yourself.
When safely back at our base, you shut down the machine and then proceed to debrief with the instructor. Could there be anything more satisfying than knowing you took that awesome machine around for half an hour?!
















